Phineas and Ferb: The Best LIVE Tour Ever!

This Sunday, the Monkee Family was invited to travel south to Everett, WA to attend Disney’s Phineas and Ferb: The Best LIVE Tour Ever! Phineas and Ferb and the rest of the Tri-State Area crew magically slide off the screen onto the stage to sing and dance to some of the boy’s most famous songs from [...]

Wisdom from Dr. Seuss

I think that we all have memories of being bullied, that we would like to forget. I distinctly remember a good friend in elementary school refusing to walk home with me in junior high, scared that if she did walk with me that she too would be severely bullied and harassed, just by associating with me.  That probably hurt me the [...]

It’s Perfect

Nothing is better than waking up early to a huge snowfall (by Vancouver standards), on a Saturday.  There’s something magical about the snow in the glow of the morning sunrise. Straight from jammie’s & bedheads to snowsuits & toques.   The Man woke up in time to congratulate me on my sidewalk shoveling with the [...]

It’s Official

Today is a day of firsts. Jackson’s first hockey tournament. Jackson’s first 7am game, which means getting up at 5:15am and trying to arrive for the game by 6:30am.  Waking a sleepy non-morning monster (my gene’s there) and trying to encourage some breakfast during moans and groans of “But I need more sleep Mom”. Don’t [...]

The Worst Job As A Parent

It’s the chore that I detest but it must be done. Throwing out Editing the kids artwork and school work.  We have scads of it. Personally, I would love to keep everything but really it’s just not realistic. Some artwork has a story too good to forget and too precious to throw away.  This picture [...]

Code Red Means Someone Has A Gun Mommy

Does that headline shock you? Good.  Because that is exactly how I felt. There was an incident in a neighboring community with a student bringing a gun or replica gun into a school.  I don’t know the exact details as I/we try to catch the news without the children around.  They are always around.  This prompted my [...]

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